ABSTRACT

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

part I|183 pages

Literature & Visual Arts

chapter 1|8 pages

Abe Kobo's Internationalism

chapter 2|6 pages

Rethinking Soseki's Mon

chapter 4|6 pages

Abe Kobo's ‘Ark Sakura'

chapter 6|6 pages

Japanese Architecture Today

chapter 14|16 pages

Chaos or Coherence?

Satō Haruo's Novel Denen No Yūutsu and Yu Dafu's Trilogy Chenlun 1

chapter 15|8 pages

Unheeded Voices; Winked-at Lives

chapter 19|6 pages

A European Eye on Japanese Arts and a Japanese Response to ‘Japonisme' (1860–1920) 1

A Transcultural Interaction between Visual Arts and Critical Discourse

chapter 21|5 pages

Japanese Diaries

chapter 22|16 pages

Towards a Definition of Tama

part II|99 pages

Linguistics

chapter 34|8 pages

On Predicate Nominals in Japanese